last saturday Nickeldorf, Kleylehof, Austria: gathered musicians named the CHOICE OF CATEGORY performed on a stone stage annexed to a stone arena hand-built by Austrian sculptor Franz Gyolcs himself in front of his studios at Kleylehof. the Jazz Gallery Nickelsdorf invited there as a HOMMAGE Á SUN RA for 5 days to COSMIC TONES FOR MENTAL THERAPY. – follow some photo-impressions:

pacemaker Austrian sculptor Franz Gyolcs passes the center of his land art work supervising the event. after a strong-lone-man act of 4 years his stone stage ready for performance.

Marshall Allan watching a historical record of a SUN RA ARCHESTRA concert…

… & looking back from the canvas too

SUN RA:

“I’m talking about something that’s so impossible, it can’t possibly be true. But it’s the only way the world is going to survive, this impossible thing. My job is to change 5 billions of people to something else. Totally impossible. But everything that’s possible has been done by man, I have to deal with the impossible. And when I deal with the impossible and am successful, it makes me feel good because I know I’m not bullshittin’.”

back to the times the walls of village farm houses here in Pannonia were “breathing air” through the bricks & stones because of their chalk cover – outside as inside. on the way through Stotzing, Burgenland I met last week one of the last house holders who traditionally whitewash their house in spring. & this activity seemed to spring over into the face of the old man at the moment he proudly told me about the benefits he gains from his work for his house, life & surroundings – & obviously for himself too!

Prof Gerhard Kisser gets the award sculpture Kunstmediator / Art Mediator by designer Franz Wieser himself – the winner of last year who officially should do this – Willy Puchner – unfortunately was prevented for comming.

after the award ceremony founder Gerhard Kisser proudly leads through the ensemble of old houses. with help of volunteers and the “thatch roof specialists” from Heiligenbrunn it was in 1976 that a small group of six buildings as “ensemble Gerersdorf” officially could be presented to the public.

sometimes the title of a similar image names a whole exhibition – but “what is?” a simple title for the image? & why are most contemporary paintings signed “without title”? – are we afraid to spell out what we see, to baptise our vision? or do we just want to keep the suspense of our own free & instinctive signs unsealed?

Artist and cook – both have to work hard for laurels or hoods, in order to exist: the competition is tough and with the rapid dissemination of their work through the media, their work mutates much more quickly to a “déjà vu et déjà mangé.” After a media career, Gustav Ebinger has thrown in the legendary towel, replaced it with a waiter cloth and was able to remodel the old “Schloßcafe”, which his great-grandfather already led at the beginning of last century, into the “Ebinger”. With Bernie Rieder he has for the kitchen – “good cooking has always made out a good café” – found a cook, who was already crowned at age 21 to become the youngest chef in Austria. In those wild years Rieder even painted casually and created together with the painter and passionate chef Andreas Roseneder a six-course meal in the kitchen for his vernissage guests – and besides the walls got painted. … more parallels followed, Andreas Roseneder founded together with the sculptor Rudolf Pinter “Der Turm” (tower) in the air traffic control tower at Trausdorf airport for the realization of artistic activities, Bernie Rieder led “Das Turm”-restaurant on the top floor of one of the Twin Towers in Vienna / Favoriten to a meeting place for gourmets. Such a lover of fine food just as well as cooking, is also the artist Adolf Tuma. He did his apprenticeship as a lithographer in the stamps department of the Austrian State Printshop and still works there in the stamps studio. His clients even included the postal administration of Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Kuwait, San Marino, the Schönbrunn Zoo and the National Park Donau Auen as well as the Austrian National Bank. His hands have portrayed Rosa Mayreder and Karl Landsteiner on the last five-hundred- and thousand-schilling notes. And so far, more than 100 stamps show Adolf Tuma’s ideas. “So many working hours flow into such a stamp.” Just recently he was awarded for the second time the “Yehudi Menuhin Trophy” for best musical stamp in the world. The artists Adolf “Hugo” Tuma and Andreas Roseneder met years ago on the island of Zakynthos, where Roseneder heads at the Sommerakademie Griechenland, acrylic painting classes. Despite differences in their artistic ambitions and different technical implementation, a friendship developed that unites them until today.